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Student builds nail art business, celebrates 19.3k Instagram followers sharing artistic process

Student builds nail art business, celebrates 19.3k Instagram followers sharing artistic process

Angelina Liu, General Life&Arts Reporter September 13, 2024

Hunched over a glossy white desk, advertising sophomore Grace Joh meticulously molds a cotton-candy blue lollipop on a pale yellow press-on nail. Despite the complexity of the design, she spends only an...

Freshman philosophy student William Bui studies in the newly renovated Classics Library pictured in Waggener Hall on Monday, Sep. 9, 2024.

Faculty, students enjoy remodeled UT Classics Library resources

Bailey Raymond, General Life&Arts Reporter September 12, 2024

Strolling through the newly remodeled UT Classics Library, scholars and professors approach the question “Bonus liber melior est quisque quo major” (The bigger a good book is, the better) or “μέγα...

Outstanding Young Texas Ex Céline Halioua talks veterinary medicine startup, expanding canine lifespan

Outstanding Young Texas Ex Céline Halioua talks veterinary medicine startup, expanding canine lifespan

Mehana Ondreyka, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 12, 2024

After sneaking into a Liberal Arts Honors event and discovering her passion for research during freshman year,  alumna Céline Halioua, class of 2017, switched her major from art to neuroscience. Now...

Flying Longhorns: Travel the world with Texas Exes

Flying Longhorns: Travel the world with Texas Exes

Mehana Ondreyka, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 11, 2024

Since 1961, Flying Longhorns, a program powered by Texas Exes, has taken UT alumni around the world. With dozens of fully planned excursions each year, the program only requires a Texas Exes membership...

‘Speak No Evil’ inspires laughter in otherwise psychologically disturbed audience

‘Speak No Evil’ inspires laughter in otherwise psychologically disturbed audience

Bailey Raymond, General Life&Arts Reporter September 11, 2024

Blumhouse Productions’ “Speak No Evil,” a remake of the 2022 Dutch film of the same title, invites an unassuming family to a beautiful English estate full of idyllic scenery and secretly psychotic...

Jay Sankaran, an assistant professor at UT, and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz discussing global nuclear threats and how to reduce them during a Texas Tribune Festival event at the Omni Hotel Sept. 6.

UT professor speaks at Texas Tribune Festival with Ernest Moniz, talks upcoming book

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter September 10, 2024

After listening in on Texas Tribune Festival panels for years, a UT professor found himself somewhere he never imagined his career would take him. In the Omni Hotel Ballroom at the festival this Friday,...

Michael Valencia, owner of Mikey V's hot sauce, serves samples of his hot sauce at the hot sauce festival hosted by the Austin Chronicle on Sept. 8.

Victory tastes hot: Contest winners at Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival turn passion for spice into businesses

Analise Pickerrell, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 10, 2024

Locals know the Austin Chronicle’s Hot Sauce Festival for its tasty sauces of all flavors and heat levels, live music and the annual hot sauce contest. For some, winning the contest was the peak of their...

UT alumni and leader of the UT Jazz Trumpet Studio Dr. Michael Sailors performs an excerpt from his new album outside of the Butler School of Music on Sept. 9, 2024.

UT professor and jazz musician releases first jazz record, reflects on record–making process

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 9, 2024

Mike Sailors, assistant professor of practice at the Butler School of Music, released his first record, Elias Haslanger meets Mike Sailors on Aug. 16. The record includes 10 songs featuring the piano,...

Associate Curator Claire Howard gives a tour of the "Long Live Surrealism!" Blanton Art Museum art exhibit on Sept. 6.

Expect the unexpected: The Blanton’s new exhibit celebrates 100th anniversary of surrealism

Analise Pickerrell, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 8, 2024

Dream-like and distorted images of the bizarre decorate striking pastel pink walls — what curator Claire Howard (art history, ‘20) said pays homage to a 1959 international surrealist exhibition in...

‘The Front Room’ explores tragedy, family difficulties through darkly comedic lens

‘The Front Room’ explores tragedy, family difficulties through darkly comedic lens

Joe Ferrara, General Life&Arts Reporter September 6, 2024

“The Front Room,” written and directed by Sam and Max Eggers, follows Belinda (Brandy Norwood) and Norman (Andrew Burnap) as they navigate the average hardships of an expecting couple — with the...

New children’s musical pulls from associate dean’s childhood experience, inspiring young people

New children’s musical pulls from associate dean’s childhood experience, inspiring young people

Flora Farr, Life&Arts Desk Editor September 6, 2024

As a stage set revolves, it reveals a small trailer with wood paneling, green fabric walls and a leaky ceiling. While this set houses a new fictional star Lyric, it also brings a memory to life for the...

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ brings refreshing complexity to beloved characters while elaborating on fun, gothic imagining

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ brings refreshing complexity to beloved characters while elaborating on fun, gothic imagining

Flora Farr, Life&Arts Desk Editor September 6, 2024

In Tim Burton’s Winter River, Connecticut, everyone is frantically hushed if they say “Beetlejuice” more than once. Thankfully, no one stopped director and producer Burton from calling his classic...

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